He was particularly famous for comments in support of the 9/11 attacks, and encouraging Muslims to fight Christians and Jews in "Muslim lands", and for a Fatwa praising the Taliban shortly after their destruction of the Buddha sculptures in Bamiyan[5] for creating "the only country in the world in which there are no man-made laws".[6] According to the Jamestown Foundation, he supported a "retrograde, millenarian form of Islamism that was more notable for what it was against than what it actually stood for, and which was not in line with traditional Wahabbi thought in Saudi Arabia at the time."[5]

Some students of al-Oqala al-Shu’aybi, make up what has been called the “al-Shu’aybi (al-Shuebi) school”, based out of the very conservative city of Buraydah, capital of al-Qasim Province in Saudi Arabia. The most important of his students are Nasir al-Fahd, Ali al-Khudair, Hamoud al-Khaldi, and Sulaiman Al-Elwan.[5] As of 2010, the four had been in prison since 2003, following the May 2003 suicide bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh that killed 34 people, and which they reportedly supported.[20][5] The school helped legitimized the jihadi movement’s fight against the Saudi state and aided in the recruitment of new supporters when the movement began to emerge in Saudi Arabia in late-1999 and early-2000.[5]